World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Pictures & Report from Osaka Homeless Struggle!

16-02-2006 14:10 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Here is a short report and selected pictures from resistance against the Utsubo Park eviction in Osaka, Japan!

All actions by homeless and supporters are self-organised and non-hierarchial - Victory to the Homeless Liberation Struggle

This is the real reality of Japan today - a place of economic division, brutality and exploitation.

The US Propaganda Campaign Grinds On

16-02-2006 13:19 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | World

The US government is explicitly asking for funding for an intensive propaganda campaign. Now we shall expose their true intent.

Urgent - More Repression and Arrests in Barcelona

16-02-2006 12:54 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

There has been a wave of recent arrests in Barcelona, it is urgent we take action in whatever ways we can.

Against all governments, prisons and police everywhere.

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Alert and Alarmed at Ruddock's new phone tap powers

15-02-2006 23:52 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Civil liberties groups have attacked plans to give intelligence agencies and police the power to tap the phones of innocent third parties during terrorist and major crime investigations...

Celebrate for Prestes Maia!

15-02-2006 17:42 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | London | World

PRESTES MAIA STAYS ! CELEBRATE TOMORROW 1PM

Crossrail hole minister Alistair Darling in brazen secret trip to Brick Lane Lon

15-02-2006 09:27 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

Crossrail fanatic spender of public cash for big business benefit, Alistair darling mp was in a secret meeting in the east end of London. That was yards away from the Greatorex Street, scene of anti-crossrail hole demo in Oct 2004 and one of the routes through which heavy polluting dust and spoil from the planned crossrail hole in brick lane will be
Transported in Lorries for years if the crossrail hole bill is not scrapped. darling was in the secret visit as part of a diversionary ploy to further aid the corrupt tower hamlets council that has been used by crossrail touts to bring the crossrail hole problems to the east end.

Bolivian Solidarity interview edited for Resonance FM show wednesday

This is a 17min audio piece put together as the outro for the wednesday Indymedia London Newswire Show that goes out on Resonance FM every week. The first 11 minutes include an edited version of an interview made with one of the delegates from the Bolivian Solidarity Campaign who was at last weekends benefit gig. The first section also includes one track recorded live during the gig. The final six minutes are throw away filler design to coincide with the end of the hour long show.

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'FUNERAL DEMO' OF ICELANDIC NATURE AT LONDON EMBASSY

Icelandic London Embassy is targeted by environmentalists protesting against the Karahnjukar dams and the multinational aluminium invasion of the last great pristine wilderness of Europe.

Anti-fascists fete Sacranie

The UAF would not invite as a speaker someone who said that black people are immoral, harmful and spread disease, or who vilified Jewish people as offensive, immoral and repugnant. Why, then, are they giving a platform to Sir Iqbal Sacranie, a bigot who says these things about gays and lesbians?"

Federal Mogul's Spodden Valley manufacturing jobs to be axed?

14-02-2006 15:32 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

US based Federal Mogul has just announced a consultation on the future of all manufacturing jobs at its Rochdale site in the Spodden Valley.

Tower Hamlets Council exposed as party to plot for a Crossrail hole

14-02-2006 10:02 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway has said that there is no need fort a Crossrail station at Whitechapel. Why? Because Transport for London already have a scheduled refurbishment programme for Whitechapel in a couple of years time. This exposed that the local Tower Hamlets council has been involved in secret Crossrail -Whitechapel station plot against The East End!

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URGENT ACTION: Autonomy Declared in Daechuri, South Korea

14-02-2006 03:26 | Anti-militarism | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Faced with Repression and Displacement, A South Korean Farming Community Declares Autonomy and Demands U.S. Military Withdrawal

Solidarity for Prestes Maia

Gentrification by greedy developers and corrupt local officials isn't just a problem in Hackney...

'PRESTES MAIA MUST STAY' - squatter, social centres and samba solidarity demo, Thursday 16th Feb 1pm outside Brazilian Embassy, 32 Green St, London, W1 (bring drums, carnival costumes and cardboard boxes to erect shanty town)

http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&q=brazilian+embassy&near=London,+UK&radius=0.0&cid=51500197,-126197,5716811906749722123&li=lmd&z=14&t=m

1/3 OF DANISH TROOPS SCHEDULED FOR IRAQ NOW CHOOSE TO DESERT

13-02-2006 16:14 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | Social Struggles | World

Because of the continuing protests by Muslims over the insolent drawings of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.), 1/3 of the Danish Army scheduled for deployment in Iraq have just now fled their posts. The enlisted personnel who would serve as cannon fodder are especially involved.

Catalonia: For the right to decide

13-02-2006 14:24 | Social Struggles | World

WE ARE A NATION AND WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DECIDE!

George Galloway MP challenges Crossrail promoters over Tower Hamlets Council

13-02-2006 05:03 | Analysis | Social Struggles | London | World

At the weekend Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway issued a clearest possible challenge to that Council: that it is that Council that has created the Crossrail attack on the propel of the East End borough and if at the May 2006 elections the RESPECT coalition gain control of that Council, they will create the most difficult obstruction to defeat the Crossrail programme of attacks on the people.

6th anarchist film fet in chicago

13-02-2006 02:45 | Social Struggles | World

seeks submissions

2nd Renaissance -6

13-02-2006 00:20 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The second route involves the setting up of entirely new living spaces on tribal lands that were previously seized by colonising governments that espoused and followed Taker philosophies. This route has greater credibility, in the sense of secession rights, where clear historical ownership of the land can be shown.

EDO INJUNCTION SMASHED!

12-02-2006 19:15 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

HIGH COURT VICTORY FOR THE RIGHT TO PROTEST.

EDO MBM DROP CONTROVERSIAL ANTI-PROTEST ‘INJUNCTION AGAINST THE WORLD’

DEFIANT PROTESTERS FIGHT ON TO CLEAR THEIR NAMES.

[Queens Bench, High Court, Royal Courts of Justice, The Strand, London]

Fields of Battle

12-02-2006 03:58 | Analysis | Social Struggles | World

Faced with the undeniable and now unavoidable truth of the criminality of the Bush, Blair and Howard governments, what do you suppose are the consequences for these men? People are fined for parking and littering offences but murder and plunder on an international scale incurs no penalty it would seem. [The ICC is a puppet court, an institution with zero credibility.] Is the lack of legal and public response surprising? Advice from leading consultants and ‘people managers’ was/is unanimous; once a decision is acted upon by a government and a nation is committed to a particular course, the people are swept along regardless of compromising evidence released during or after the event.

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